In Entrepreneurial Musicianship, New England Conservatory students build their lives in music.
EM provides students and alumni with individual advising and career consulting, courses, experiential learning, and opportunities to fund and incubate new work. Our office is in room 106 of the St. Botolph building, across from Pierce Hall.
In light of the shift in the way we interact and learn with each other due to COVID-19, we are working to find the best ways of supporting NEC students. Our primary concern is continuing to support your lives in music, despite not being on campus together.
To start, the EM Office is open online. Annie and Drew are available for web or phone advising appointments as usual. We are happy to talk through any regular EM topics like resumes or project planning but also can support you through managing gig or concert cancellations, etc. Specific details on new programs and resources will be forthcoming—check your NEC email!
are designed to bring each student individualized resources to help them develop and reach their own unique artistic and career goals.
The much appreciated grant provides me not just the financial support but the confidence to believe this project can be a success.
Every NEC student and alum has access to free advising from the EM team—conservatory-trained professionals with experience at every level of every size of arts organization. These one-on-one advising sessions can be about anything from writing bios and resumes to grant proposals, long term projects, career direction, and artistic goals.
Only seven girls have made Texas All-State Jazz Band in the last decade.
This June, Grow Your Art Grand Prize Winner Amanda Ekery MM '18 hosted the second year of El Paso Jazz Girls, a free program for high school girls in her hometown. This year, the program expanded to Austin, Texas--check out more on the El Paso Jazz Girls Blog.
In Spring 2019, EM Grant Winner Magdalena Abrego MM'19 published the first edition of input/output, the magazine she founded featuring female and non-binary individuals creating avant-garde and experimental music in the United States. A related podcast series will launch this fall.
In June 2019, Trio Gaia won an EM Travel Grant to attend the Ensemble Connect Audience Engagement Intensive at Carnegie Hall. Andrew Barnwell, Trio Gaia's pianist, is also the EM Nova Fellows Executive Director for 2019-20.
This summer, EM Grant Winner Naledi Masilo lanched the Dreaming Girls Music Conference in South Africa. Dreaming Girls is a three-day conference experience that focuses on engaging female musicians with social issues. Naledi was also the inaugural Bower Stage Fellow, programming performances on the Bower Stage in the SLPC.
Previous EM Grant Winner Emma Gies also won a Spark Award for further presentations of Under Our Skins, her workshop and performance dispelling race, gender, and sexuality stereotypes through oral history and musical improvisation.
Every NEC student and alum has access to free advising from the EM team—conservatory-trained professionals with experience at every level of every size of arts organization. These one-on-one advising sessions can be about anything from writing bios and resumes to grant proposals, long term projects, career direction, and artistic goals.